The creative spark

This is the topic of friday night service, the passage is on Genesis 1. pastor Dave Lee talked about four characteristics of God which opened my eyes. He said that God is explosive, Imaginative, life-loving and beautiful.

The thing that stuck out to me the most is that in terms of his explosiveness, when God is creating something, he doens't do it tentatively, he does it boldly, with all the guts. Like the stars in the sky, to put it in Pastor Dave's words, he was in his "star phase" and he speaks those countless stars into existence, adn they are beautiful. So don't try to stop God--don't try to take control, only when I let go, will God take full control and do things in my life boldly. And I will realize in the end that they are all the best for me. so I needed to let go and let God explode.

In terms of his Imaginativeness, he is the god that creates different kinds of things, and i agree with the example Pastor Dave gave, that he's created so many human, but not one of them are indentical. And he hasn't grown tired of it yet! If I were to do something repeatedly with variety, I'd be so bored, yet he does it generation after generation.

In terms of his life-lovingness, God created what's seemingly disorder orderly. What we see the stars in the sky might be completely random, but he knows the patterns. In terms of the oneness of the church, we should be like a schools of fish that swim individually but in the same direction.

In terms of his beautiful, it is complete, and satisfies the recipe. I am really inspired by his saying about the earth, that it is most beautiful to look at from the outer space. The one being that could afford to appreciate everyday is God. no one else. He created all these for him and him alone. It's all because of HIS glory and honor, it's none of our business. and we are God's housekeeper, and that's it.

I realized after the sermon that after listening to people emphasizing on how God is a personal God, I forgot that he is also the creator of the universe. He is the most vast being in the world, and I was just minimize him and his power. This sermon is such a good reminder that all these beauty and the creativity is also in us. and we are also called to create beautiful things to glorify his name!!